GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Hunter is a Ph.D. student researching polar and planetary geophysics. His interests include ice dynamics and habitability for ocean icy worlds. During his Ph.D., he will be looking into how the ice in the ductile ice layer of Europa’s ice shell behaves and how we can use terrestrial analogs from Earth to infer European ice dynamics and properties. Hunter is a graduate affiliate on the Europa Clipper Mission.

Hunter completed his undergraduate degree at Penn State University where he researched the eruptive processes of the Wrangellia Large Igneous Province using Crystal Size Distributions (CSDs) of Plagioclase crystals.

INTERESTS

Icy ocean world habitability, ice-penetrating radar, ice fabric

SUPERVISOR

Don Blankenship

ACADEMICS

B.Sc., Geosciences, Penn State University

CONTACTS AND LINKS

Office: ROC 2.254
her863@utexas.edu
Curriculum Vitae